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PPC Campaigns
I don't claim to know a whole lot about PPC and other banner ad campaigns. There are several different companies on the Internet that offer that kind of stuff to publishers and advertisers. The biggest of course being Google Ads. I have tried several...
Lotsa Hits...
Now if I could just do this every day... Yesterday afternoon I wrote a long drawn out entry about Meredith Emerson, the missing hiker in North Georgia. Drawing for several different sources I tried to present as complete a picture as possible. Altho...
International Search Engine Optmization and Search Engine Marketing
For someone who might be interested in promoting their online business and web site you want to make sure that the person or company that is going to handle your search engine optimization or SEO needs is at least somewhat familiar with the technolog...
Search Engine of Choice...
I have done a bit of thinking and have decided that maybe the jury is still out on the Google thing. It may be that they are still going through some changes in their algorithms or whatever and the page ranks that have been bestowed on us recently...
Google Analytics
I finally found why my sitemeters were not recording most of my visits. Stupid mistake and it possibly will cost me some money. I added Sitemeter in to a sidebar widget but then forgot to put it in the sidebar of my internal pages, the ones that most...
Hits Getting Back To Normal
What with two of my sites basically being down for the better part of two weeks my hits took a drastic downturn. Judging from the numbers I am seeing at the Adsense page today they are just now starting to get back to normal. Part of the problem was...
Video Classifieds
I've come across a new way to make money on the Internet by listing classifieds, more specifically video classifieds.Listasaurus.com is the first classifieds website that pays you for listing ads. They have recently added the ability to include video...
PayU2Blog Blogroll
I am in the process of adding the Payu2Blog blogroll to my site, this is the static entry that I will be keeping it in. If you are on the main page it's in the extended entry......
Win A Logo From the Prize Blog
I will also be posting this at my other three sites to get the word out. The Prize blog is sponsoring a contest that's extremely easy to enter. All you have to do is write an entry and link to the contest and the Prize Blog itself. Can't get much ea...
Submit Your Own Entry Contest!!!
I am running a post contest for $50 over at Shadowscope, check it out if you are interested....
Alive Web Directory
One of the things that I mentioned in the 101 Steps to Better Blogging is to submit your blog to web directories. Don't worry, I know I haven't posted about it recently but with the addition of several new blogs I have been doing the initial basic st...
Purchasing Domains
I will post my August earnings report here in a couple of days but just wanted to post a bit tonight before I go to bed. In the process of learning to make money blogging I have slowly been purchasing domains to earn money. I figure a little bit from...
How NOT to be a Successful Blogger
Right on the heel of "How Not To Treat Customers" here is How Not to Be A Successful Blogger. Someone else has written it however and it's a darn good article. Engtech (pronounced enj-tek) has been blogging for awhile and is very thorough and it show...
Optimizing Search
Here's a short video about things that small businesses can do to optimize their search engine rankings. Technorati: SEO, Search Engine Optimization, Traffic...
101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger - Step #32
It's been a couple of weeks since I have had the opportunity to just write. About the only thing I have done recently is to go to work, come home, do a couple of paid reviews, stick something in between and go to bed only to repeat the cycle the next...
How NOT To Blog
Rule 1. Use original content, or when you ARE going to use content from other sites as I do quite often, link to them, if you are using exact wording then apply block quote formatting, something to let your readers know it's not your content. When y...
Back To Step #10
Although I am a little ahead of the game, some of the steps in 101 Steps to Better Blogging are an ongoing work and while I was over at My Thoughts today I saw that Marcus was discussing step 10, submit your blog to RSS and blog directories. He menti...
Alexa Redirects
I have pretty much stopped using Alexa redirects on all of my linking except on a few forums that I use. The problem is that if you use redirects you get no SEO benefit whatsoever. Lord Mat describes it much better than I do, go read SEO Basics and...
101 Steps to Better Blogging - Steps 19 - 31
Steps 19 through 31 in the 101 Steps to Better Blogging all specifically pertain to Wordpress plugins which of course I don't use. There are several substitutions that I am using or can deal with as explained below. 19. Akismet to eliminate comment...
Step #16 - Add and RSS feed link to the Bottom of Every Post
Step # 16 in 101 Steps to Better Blogging is to add an RSS feed link to the bottom of every post. I have not yet done so but may have time to work on it this weekend. I don't know how it will look with my templates but am at least willing to try it....
AdVolcano Ad Network
AdVolcano Ad Network is a great way to sell advertising on your web site or blog. As a publisher AdVolcano allows you to design the ads around your site rather than having to change your site so that they fit. You also get the option to set your own...
101 Steps to Better Blogging
Steps #12,13 and 14 are up at Shadowscope. They are short so I combined them although I may go back and revisit later. ...
Gotta Have Goals...
Back at the beginning of July I posted some goals on my main site, Shadowscope. There were two of them. One was to post 300 entries in the month and the other was to make at least $1000 in July. Let's see how I did.We'll start with the posts.At Shado...
Step #11 - Use Trackbacks
Since I use trackbacks quite often at Shadowscope, it is only appropriate that I post the entry over there. ...
Step #9 - Blog and Ping
Step #9 in the 101 steps to better blogging is to make sure that you Blog and Ping. Although Marcus hasn't gotten to this one yet (or posted about it anyhow) the link to the original article at Lifehack.org is here and I don't want to get too far ah...
Find People With Spock
Spock is a new search engine that aims to be the Google equivalent for finding people on the Internet. According to Spock, Search on Spock to find your friends, old acquaintances, your favorite celebrities, or people you would like to meet. With Spoc...
Alexa Developer's Corner - Site Widgets
I have been fooling around with the Alexa Widgets since I am obviously concerned about my Alexa scores going up and down. Over the last 60 days they have risen (bad) from what I had gotten them down to back in May and I am trying to make sure that I...
Updated Your Site Image at Text-Link Ads
I found out via InvestorBlogger that if you need to have the image for your blog updated at TextLinkAds.com the easiest way is to go to http://www.girafa.com/updateurl.acr as their images are provided by a third party source. It's a quick and easy w...
Do You Thoof?
Thoof is a site along the lines of some of the other news ranking sites with a slight twist though. You submit personalized news and the rankings of each story depend on other readers that might have an interest in. The big thing about some of the o...
Submit Your Site To Links Directories
If you haven't been there yet I started a link directory last week entitled Shadowscope Links Directory. If you are trying to raise traffic to your site as well as increase your Google Page Rank it is very important to get back links to your site. O...
